VMware vSphere 4

VMware vSphere™ 4 is the industry’s first cloud operating system, which uses the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures. This transformation enables the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services to be delivered both within internal clouds, as well as from external clouds, securely and with low risk. Combining VMware’s industry leading virtualization technology and experience, vSphere delivers uncompromising control, with greater efficiency, while preserving customer choice. VMware vSphere™ is the next generation of the powerful and proven VMware® Infrastructure 3 platform, used by more than 130,000 customers.

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Business Continuity

Can your business afford any disruption of IT services? Thousands of data centers experience significant services interruptions every year, at the cost of lost business revenue and lost data—or worse. And while disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of the majority of service downtime. With VMware vSphere and VMware Site Recovery Manager, customers trust VMware to deploy business continuity plans to the world's most demanding datacenters.

VMware Site Recovery Manager

VMware Site Recovery Manager enables rapid, reliable, and manageable disaster recovery by providing leading disaster recovery management and automation for virtualized environments. Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables non-disruptive testing of recovery plans, and enables automated failover when failures occur. Long before a failure occurs, organizations can use Site Recovery Manager to configure and program the recovery process for their entire site. At the time of failover or testing Site Recovery Manager automates execution of the recovery plan, eliminating many of the slow and unreliable manual processes common in traditional disaster recovery.

• Decrease planned and unplanned downtime for business continuity.
• Protect all of your important systems and applications with disaster recovery.

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Disaster Recovery

Forget about traditional disaster recovery solutions. They’re costly and complex, and often can’t meet your recovery objectives even after doubling your hardware (and cost) for protected applications. Imagine being able to recover to any machine, not just specific duplicate hardware. Hardware-independence in your data center with VMware vSphere, where any physical server can be the recovery target for your virtual servers, makes fast recovery the norm. Reduce your hardware costs and your maintenance budget. Even if you haven’t virtualized your production servers, virtualized target servers for your disaster recovery give you greater simplicity, reliability, and cost savings.

• Recover from disasters rapidly
• Ensure reliable disaster recovery
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery
• Automate disaster recovery

High Availability

Downtime, whether planned or unplanned, brings with it considerable costs. However, solutions to ensure higher levels of availability have traditionally been costly, hard to implement, and difficult to manage. VMware software makes it simpler and less expensive to meet your availability requirements with solutions that are independent of hardware, operating system, and applications

• Eliminate planned downtime for common maintenance operations
• Prevent unplanned downtime by ensuring continuous availability for applications running in virtual machines
• Ensure rapid recovery from outages with automatic restart of systems in the case of server failure

Desktop Virtualization

Gain key advantages over traditional client-server and server-based models. Configure, deploy and maintain hardware-independent desktop virtual machines from central locations for simpler management and more efficient desktop provisioning. Enable stronger policy enforcement and tighter data security by encapsulating the desktop operating system, applications, and user data as a set of files in a virtual machine that can be stored centrally. Most importantly, for end users, VMware desktop virtualization solutions deliver a familiar desktop experience that does not require application sharing, software modifications or user training.

VMware View 4

Purpose-built for delivering desktops as a managed service, VMware View provides the best end user experience and transforms IT by simplifying and automating desktop management.

Centrally maintaining desktops, applications and data; reduces costs and improves security while at the same time increases availability and flexibility for end users. Unlike other desktop virtualization products, VMware View is a tightly integrated end to end solution built on the industry leading virtualization platform allowing customers to extend powerful business continuity and disaster recover features to their desktops and standardize on a common platform from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud.

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Thin App

Simplify application deployments by eliminating application conflicts through application virtualization. Package an entire application and its settings into a single executable that is isolated from the OS. Plug VMware ThinApp into your existing management infrastructure and accelerate your application development and desktop deployment. Deliver and deploy applications more efficiently, more securely, and more cost-effectively.

• Run applications from any media without needing admin privileges for secure mobile computing
• Maximize uptime during application migration and updates

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vCenter Lab Manager

Create and manage a library of commonly used configurations and dynamically provision them in seconds with a simple mouse click. VMware vCenter Lab Manager gives users on-demand access to system configurations they need while achieving significant savings through reduced server, storage, and provisioning costs.

• Automate the provisioning of multi-machine system configurations with virtual lab automation.

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vCenter Stage Manager

Reduce server sprawl, configuration drift and repetitive system test in pre-production. VMware vCenter Stage Manager reduces the risks associated with changes to production systems by enabling IT and application administrators to easily clone system configurations and maintain consistent virtual machine images throughout the release process.

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vCenter Lifecycle Manager

Implement a consistent, automated process for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines in the datacenter, from provisioning to operation to retirement. VMware Lifecycle Manager automates the virtualization workflow to improve efficiency and productivity, and ensure compliance with company policies.

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vCenter Server Heartbeat

Optimize availability and resiliency for VMware vCenter Server in any situation. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat delivers the maximum uptime for your virtual datacenter infrastructure, ensuring consistent operation, even when VMware vCenter Server is threatened by unplanned or planned downtime.

• Protect VMware vCenter Server and its database against hardware, OS, application and network downtime.
• Ensure seamless failover and failback of VMware vCenter Server.
• Provide reliable disaster recovery for VMware vCenter Server in local and remote locations.

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